Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

I Washington, D. €., Sept. 24. lit was disclosed today that President Wilson has assumed important responsibility for furnishing aid to the Kolchak government in Siberia, and this has given rise to doubt of an early withdrawal from Russia of the 8,500 American soldiers there. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, justified the steel strike before the senate interstate commerce committee, but admitted that he sought to have it. delayed until after the" white house industrial conference next month. He laid full responsibility for the strike at the door of E. H. Gary. The senate treaty fight seemed to be deadlocked today, with both sides fearful of a showdown on the Johnson amendment to equalize American and British representation in the league of nations assembly. ißepresentative Kahn, of California, sought Attorney General Palmer’s advice today as to whether the government might prosecute W. Z. Foster, secretary-treasurer of the steel strike committee, in connection with deaths and injuries since the strike began. The attorney general Baid he thought such a prosecution would lie with the various states and not the federal government.